High hopes for Eton boys’ ski app

Woollen hats off to Eton schoolboys Ed Hardy, 17, and Kit Logan, 16, who have just launched their own ski resort and racing app called Edge, with some very heavyweight backers.

Frank Meehan, the man who invested in Wimbledon schoolboy Nick D’Aloisio, who sold his Summly app to Yahoo! for an estimated £20 million in March at the age of just 17, and Wired editor David Rowan are among Edge’s supporters.

The app has information on 600 resorts and uses location technology to help users calculate their speed and challenge friends on the slopes. The sixth-formers aim “to become the Waze of ski-ing” — by replicating the success of the Israeli traffic app that Google bought for zillions.